From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Tue Apr 4 09:36:14 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers Meeting TONIGHT! Message-ID: <200004041436.KAA28147@happyfunball.pm.org> Just a reminder that the next meeting of the Baltimore Perl Mongers will be TONIGHT at 7:00p.m. in the conference room at the Community of Science office buildings in Fell's Point (For directions see http://www.cos.com/directions.shtml). If this is your first meeting, you have to use the phone on the side of the building to call Community of Science to gain entrance to the building. They usually start listening for callers around 6:30 p.m. Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk This month there is no planned presentation but Dave Waldo will be on hand to tell us a little about the LINUX and Apache conferences that have kept him away from us the last two months. I'll also follow up on my experience with some mainframe issues I brought up at the last meeting. Also I have books o' plenty (5) to hand out this month courtesy of Osbourne/McGraw-Hill Publications. Hope to see you there. Rob Manning manningr@tcsnet.net Principal Analyst Work (410) 396-4963 TeleCommunication Systems Fax (410) 837-0546 -- Looking for a Perl user's group in Baltimore? - http://baltimore.pm.org From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Wed Apr 5 11:50:08 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: combination program Message-ID: <200004051650.MAA05335@happyfunball.pm.org> This was sent to the list by Michael Clingman [Michael.D.Clingman@ssa.gov] I just started moderating the list so I'm not sure how this is going to look when everyone gets it... Rob > This is a program that uses recursion to solve the problem brought up at > the meeting last night. It takes all combinations of the previous n-1 > letters and adds all combinations for the current letter. @groups > contains all combinations for n-1 letters and @groups_new is built to > contain all combinations of n letters. > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > @list = ('a','b','c','d','e','f'); > > @result = &combine(4); > print "@result\n"; > > sub combine { > my(@groups,@groups_new,$a,$b,$t,$n); > $n = shift; > return '' if $n == 0; > @groups = &combine($n-1); > @groups_new = @groups; > foreach $a (@groups) { > $t = $a . $list[$n-1]; > push(@groups_new,$t); > } > return(@groups_new); > } > Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Thu Apr 6 12:32:38 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200004061732.NAA12163@happyfunball.pm.org> > > This was sent to the list by Michael Clingman > [Michael.D.Clingman@ssa.gov] > > Works like a charm. Thanks. > > Coincidentally, I just read a sig: > "The key to understanding recursion is to understand recursion." > > > I just started moderating the list so I'm not sure how this is going to > > look when everyone gets it... > > Looks good. > Jim Sandoz > > Mr. James W. Sandoz, Instructor, UMBC Dept of Biol Sciences, > 1000 Hilltop Circle > Catonsville, MD 21250 > voice: (410) 455-3497; fax: 455-3875; net: sandoz@umbc.edu > Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Mon Apr 24 08:56:20 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200004241356.JAA14389@happyfunball.pm.org> Just got this from Mark-Jason Dominus about a mini-conferance he'll be holding in Philadelphia on May 11. Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk Rob Rob Manning manningr@tcsnet.net Principal Analyst Work (410) 396-4963 TeleCommunication Systems Fax (410) 837-0546 -- Looking for a Perl user's group in Baltimore? - http://baltimore.pm.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark-Jason Dominus [SMTP:mjd@plover.com] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:24 AM > To: rmanning@erols.com > Cc: mjd@plover.com > Subject: Do you think people in Baltimore would be interested in > this? > > > If so, would you please send it to the Baltimore.pm list for me? > > ------- Forwarded Message > > To: phl@lists.pm.org > From: mjd-perl-pm@plover.com > cc: mjd@plover.com > Subject: Perl Advanced Programming tutorial > Organization: Plover Systems > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:13:41 -0400 > Sender: owner-phl@lists.pm.org > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: phl@lists.pm.org > > > This year I'll be doing three tutorials at the big Perl conference in > Monterey. One of them is new; it's called `Advanced Programming > Techniques in Perl'. I need to practice this before I go to Monterey, > so I'll be giving the tutorial in Philadelphia next month. If you > were to attend in Monterey, you would pay $320. But you can come to > my practice session for $5. Any money I have left over after expenses > will be donated to the Free Software Foundation. > > The tutorial will be at 6 PM on Thursday, 11 May at the University of > Pennsylvania Literacy Center at 3910 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. > It will end around 9:30 or 10:00 PM. > > Here's the brochure description: > > Who Should Attend: > > Intermediate Perl programmers and those with some Perl > experience and basic familiarity with packages, objects, > references, and modules. > > We'll expand on the highly successful 'Perl Hardware > Store' talks of the past two Perl conferences, but with a > more serious bent. The Hardware Store talks introduced > powerful programming techniques such as iterators, > memoization, and higher-order computation that are drawn > from the Lisp and functional programming worlds. In this > new tutorial we'll explore these and other techniques in > much greater depth than the Hardware Store talks. > > Course Outline: > > Recursion > Dispatch tables > Caching, memoization, and lazy computation > Iterators > Streams and infinite lists > Higher-order functions: merging, filtering, and reducing > > Higher-order functions: composition > Functional parsing > Sideways approaches to object-oriented programming > Constraint systems > Control flow alternatives > > Short version: It's about the same stuff that my book will be about. > > You must make an advance reservation; I have room for only 30 people. > To reserve, please send an email message to > > mjd-perl-practice@plover.com > > If I get more than 30 requests for reservations, articipants will > be selected by me based on some combination of: > > * Promptness of response (ignoring responses that arrive before > 9AM) > * Random drawing > * Blatant favoritism > > I wanted to say that I hoped to see lots and lots of people there, but > unfortunately we only have room for 30. > > Please circulate this message to any people or groups that you think > might be interested. > > My grateful thanks to Steve Linberg and to the Penn Literacy Center > for providing the space and AV equipment for my talk. > > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > Mark-Jason Dominus > mjd@plover.com > I am boycotting Amazon. See http://old.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for > details. From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Mon Apr 24 08:59:28 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200004241359.JAA14406@happyfunball.pm.org> > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org [SMTP:owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org] > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 8:57 AM > To: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org > Subject: BOUNCE baltimore-pm-list@pm.org: Approval required: > > From rmanning@erols.com Sat Apr 22 08:56:49 2000 > Received: from research.umbc.edu (sandoz@umbc7.umbc.edu [130.85.6.7]) > by happyfunball.pm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA05802 > for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 > 08:56:49 -0400 (EDT) > Received: from localhost (sandoz@localhost) > by research.umbc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA1733604 > for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 > 09:02:15 -0400 (EDT) > X-Authentication-Warning: umbc7.umbc.edu: sandoz owned process doing -bs > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:02:15 -0400 > From: "James W. Sandoz; (BIO;FAC)" > To: "'baltimore-pm-list@hfb.pm.org'" > > Subject: M J Dominus class: FYI > Message-ID: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > From comp.lang.perl.misc: > > Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,phl.announce > Subject: Perl Advanced Techniques Class on May 11 > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:59:57 GMT > > Next month, and also at the O'Reilly Perl conference in July, I'll be > giving a three-hour class called `Advanced Programming Techniques for > Perl'. I want to get some advance practice, so I'll have a practice > session in West Philadelphia. I'd be delighted if you'd come. I am > charging $5 admission to cover expenses, and I will donate any extra > money to the Free Software Foundation. > > The tutorial will be at the University of Pennsylvania Center for > Literacy at 3910 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. It will begin at > 6:00 and end around 9:30 or 10:00 PM. > > Reservations are required. To make a reservation, please send email to: > > mjd-perl-practice+@plover.com > > Some information about the course content is available at: > > http://old.plover.com/~mjd/perl/TPC/2000/Advanced/ > > I will update this page when I know more about it. > > Also please feel free to circulate this notice to any person or > organization that you think might be interested. Please don't > circulate it after May 11. > > The class is made possible through the kindness of The Penn Center for > Literacy and the Philadelphia Perl Mongers (http://phl.pm.org). > > > Mr. James W. Sandoz, Instructor, UMBC Dept of Biol Sciences, > 1000 Hilltop Circle > Catonsville, MD 21250 > voice: (410) 455-3497; fax: 455-3875; net: sandoz@umbc.edu Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Tue Apr 25 07:16:47 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200004251216.IAA18774@happyfunball.pm.org> Got this from our O'Reilly UG contact. In case anyone has done this or is interested see below... Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk Rob Rob Manning manningr@tcsnet.net Principal Analyst Work (410) 396-4963 TeleCommunication Systems Fax (410) 837-0546 -- Looking for a Perl user's group in Baltimore? - http://baltimore.pm.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Denise Olliffe [SMTP:deniseo@oreilly.com] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 6:07 PM > To: rmanning@erols.com > Subject: Your reviews > > Hello, > > As the O'Reilly User Group Coordinator, I'd like to say how much we > appreciate all that you have to say about our books. > > If your group publishes reviews, either online or by printed > newsletter, I am eager to see what your group has to say about O'Reilly > books and software. If a review is posted online, please forward me > the URL each time, so that I can check out the article. If you have a > print newsletter, please add me to your mailing list. > > FYI: > > In case you aren't aware of all that the O'Reilly UG Program offers, > here is some info: > > 1. 20% Discount for your members on all O'Reilly books and > software > 2. Free review copies of O'Reilly books and software > 3. Email or Snail-mail announcements of our latest releases and > other valuable info (sent only if requested) > 4. Books, T-Shirts and promotional items for door-prizes, > give-aways and auctions to help your group raise money > 5. Help organizing speaking engagements with our authors at > meetings or other venues, whenever possible > 6. Our latest catalogs on a quarterly basis (per request) > > I can't wait to see your next review! > > Denise :) > > > From owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org Tue Apr 25 07:58:02 2000 From: owner-baltimore-pm-list at pm.org (owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:57:23 2004 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200004251258.IAA18982@happyfunball.pm.org> I'm delighted this month to say we'll have a special presentation on XDB, a commercial, DB2-compliant, industrial-strength RDBMS from the fine folks at Merant(http://www.merant.com). What relevance does this have with the Perl Programming language you ask? Well, to start, Merant has written perl DBI drivers to allow all of us Perl Database wizards to quickly and easily port our scripts from our current favorite database to use XDB instead. Now, why would anyone want to do such a thing? Good question. I think the people at Merant are currently working on a great answer (Hint: It has something to do with open-source!) Sender: owner-baltimore-pm-list@pm.org Precedence: bulk I saw their presentation last month at the Baltimore Linux UG's meeting, and I assure you, if your work involves database(s) you won't be disappointed. Even if you you're asking yourself "What's DBI?", come and find out for yourself. I'll have books to handout, and as always our fine sponsor (Community of Science) will provide cans of soda! If you've never attended a meeting, we'd like to meet you! Directions can be found at http://www.cos.com/contact/directions.shtml Look forward to seeing you there... Rob Rob Manning manningr@tcsnet.net Principal Analyst Work (410) 396-4963 TeleCommunication Systems Fax (410) 837-0546 -- Looking for a Perl user's group in Baltimore? - http://baltimore.pm.org